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Vienna, Austria, Nov 26, 2012 \/ 04:55 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Holy See is a founding observer of a new international organization for religious dialogue, which opened Nov. 26 in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Centre that will be inaugurated on Monday in Vienna is a new institution, the purpose of which is to foster dialogue among religions and cultures,\u201d Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said Nov. 23.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis goal is always to be looked on with favour \u2013 with a view to understanding and peaceful co-existence among peoples: a basic and an urgent need for the humanity of today and tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue is a joint initiative of Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Austria. The Saudi king, for whom the center is named, is its primary financial backer.<\/p>\n

\tFr. Lombardi said the organization's importance is as \u201can opportunity and a space for dialogue,\u201d and that \u201cit is right that the Holy See should avail herself of the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue's secretary, Father Miguel A. Guixot, will be the Vatican's representative at the center.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis constitutes,\u201d said Fr. Lombardi, \u201can important occasion for presenting the Church\u2019s vision: of dialogue; the human person and vocation; ethics and religion; social relations; justice and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAddressing concerns about cooperation with a Saudi-backed organization, Fr. Lombardi noted that the Holy See will \u201cnot fail to bring to light her concerns for the effective respect of the fundamental rights of Christians who live in countries with a Muslim majority, in order to promote authentic and integral religious liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSaudi Arabia prohibits the practice of any religion but Islam, and Saudi law penalizes apostasy from the religion with capital punishment.<\/p>\n

\tThe opening of the center was marked by a symposium on best practices in interreligious dialogue.<\/p>\n

\tFr. Martin Rupprecht of the Vienna archdiocese told Vatican Radio Nov. 26 that in Austria one \u201cspecial initiative\u201d involves bringing together Catholic priests and imams, and Catholic religious sisters with female Muslim pastoral workers and religion teachers.<\/p>\n

\tThe Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue was founded in 1964 as the Secretariat of Non-Christians, and was elevated to a pontifical council in 1988. Its purpose is to foster relations with groups of non-Christian religions and all those with a religious sense.<\/p>\n

\tIn 2008, the council's president, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, said that in inter-religious dialogue, I \u201callow myself to be questioned by the convictions of others \u2026 the idea is to get to know each other, to view another\u2019s religion with kindness and to allow oneself to be enriched by the positive aspects of his religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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